To advance science and sustain technological creativity by making R&D findings available and useful to DOE researchers and the American people.
OSTI Corollary:
If the sharing of knowledge is accelerated, discovery is accelerated.
These are profound implications for all of us in the information business!
A key piece of science discovery . . .
Information – it feeds discovery.
Knowledge is contagious, and it's our job to make sure everyone "catches" it!
To that end, we have studied the contact rate and found that researchers will "catch" an idea faster if the contact rate between scientists is accelerated.
The Spread of Knowledge about Feynman Diagrams
Discovery path of US and UK authors
From The Power of a Good Idea: Quantitative Modeling of the Spread of Ideas from Epidemiological Models, Luis M. A. Bettencourt, Ariel Cintron-Arias, Carlos Castillo-Chavez, David Kaiser, May 2005.
Path of Best Trajectory
From Report for the Office of Scientific and Technical Information: Population Modeling of the Emergence and Development of Scientific Fields, Luis M. A. Bettencourt, Carlos Castillo-Chavez, David Kaiser, David E. Wojick, October 2006.
Paths of Acceleration
From Report for the Office of Scientific and Technical Information: Population Modeling of the Emergence and Development of Scientific Fields, Luis M. A. Bettencourt, Carlos Castillo-Chavez, David Kaiser, David E. Wojick, October 2006.
. . .we must dispel the misperception that popular search engines are already doing the job.
In fact, the vast majority of science information is in databases within the deep Web – or the non-Googleable Web – where popular search engines cannot go.
We in the information business need to recognize this gap between availability and need, and seize the opportunity to ...
Provide science information consumers with better tools.
The Web is still young and will certainly hold surprises as it evolves, just as another well-known transformational technology held surprises.
Google is capitalizing on this early era of Web technology and is hugely successful, powering more than half the world's searching.
But we must remember that we are just in the beginning of this transformation. Further technological transformations may very well eclipse today's search technology!
A new, promising is technology now emerging - federated search.
We need systems, such as federated search, that probe the deep Web.
Federated search drills down to the deep Web where scientific databases reside.
Unlike the Google sitemap protocol solution, federated search places no burden on the database owners.
Under the hood, NOT like Google
Science.gov
50 million pages of federal science information from 13 U.S. science agencies
Celebrating 5th Anniversary
Science Accelerator
Key DOE databases
Celebrating 1st Anniversary
Our most recent federated search engine is WorldWideScience.org – the global science gateway.
200 million pages of global science information.
In January 2007, Dr. Raymond Orbach, DOE Under Secretary for Science, and Dame Lynne Brindley, Chief Executive of the British Library, signed a Statement of Intent to partner for searchable global science gateway.
On June 12, 2008, officials gathered in Korea to formally establish a multilateral alliance that will govern the rapidly growing gateway to the world's research findings.
The WorldWideScience Alliance was formalized on June 12, 2008, in Seoul, Korea, by officials from 13 organizations representing 38 countries. WorldWideScience.org is the online gateway to science information issued from nations around the world. The signing ceremony was the culminating event at the ICSTI 2008 General Assembly, hosted by the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information.
Enables access to prominent as well as smaller, less well-known sources of highly valuable science
WorldWideScience.org allows users to search multiple data sources around the globe from a single query search box.
With just one click, your query will be sent from our server in Oak Ridge, TN, to databases around the world. Those databases will return results in real time that will then be relevancy-ranked and returned to your desktop all in a matter of seconds.
We are ready to scale up our efforts in federated search.
Simply put, we intend to make more science accessible to more people than anyone has done before.